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Dedication: For Sari.
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Author's note: This novel was originally inspired by the lives of Zina Rachevsky, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe, and the monastry they founded just out of Bodanath in the erly 1970s, Kopan Monastery.
However while the lives of my characters, Lama Gyatsho and lama Dorje Rinpoche, have echoes of the extraordinary lives of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and their teachings - either read or attended - inspired the voice of those characters, my fictional characters; my fictional characters are just that: fictional. Similarly, while Anna Davidoff's final years have moments that are similar to some of those in the final years of Zina Rachevsky, she is a fictional and invented character. All other characters in this novel are entirely fictional.
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Works about this Work
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Aborigines, Sharks and Australian Accents : On Australian Writing
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , July no. 6 2011; (p. 41-51)'Jo Case talks to influential writers, publishers and critics about that often frustrating definition of 'Australia' literature.' (Editor's abstract)
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This Year's Work in Fiction 2008-2009
2009
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review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 54 no. 1 2009; (p. 51-64)
— Review of The Pages 2008 single work novel ; The Lieutenant 2008 single work novel ; The Spare Room 2008 single work novel ; The Anatomy of Wings 2006 single work novel ; Boy On A Wire 2009 single work novel ; The Sinkings 2008 single work novel ; Bird 2008 single work novel ; One Foot Wrong 2008 single work novel ; Avenue of Eternal Peace 1989 single work novel ; Life in Seven Mistakes 2008 single work novel ; The Steele Diaries 2008 single work novel ; Butterfly 2009 single work novel ; Dissection 2007 single work novel ; Fugitive Blue 2008 single work novel ; Sweet 2008 single work novel ; The Virtuoso 2009 single work novel ; Ransom 2009 single work novel ; The Good Parents 2008 single work novel ; Vertigo : A Pastoral 2008 single work novella ; The Boat 2008 selected work short story ; New Australian Stories 2009 anthology short story ; The Slap 2008 single work novel -
Forms of Hunger and Hysteria : Recent Australian Fiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 194 2009; (p. 93-96)
— Review of The Slap 2008 single work novel ; Vertigo : A Pastoral 2008 single work novella ; Wanting 2008 single work novel ; Bird 2008 single work novel ; Disquiet 2008 single work novellaAshton discusses narrative technique and the notion of family in Tsiolkas's The Slap, Cunningham's Bird, Flanagan's Wanting, Leigh's Disquiet, and Lohrey's Vertigo. The review spends most time on The Slap, and Ashton argues that the novel's focus on family should be seen not as a flight from politics, but as 'a flight to the politics of the middle-class family' (93).
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Untitled
2008
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review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Summer no. 13 2008; (p. 65)
— Review of Bird 2008 single work novel -
Books Fiction
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 - 13 July 2008; (p. 22)
— Review of Bird 2008 single work novel
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Untitled
2008
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review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , April/May vol. 87 no. 8 2008; (p. 33)
— Review of Bird 2008 single work novel -
Daughter's Search for Lost Dharma Mum
2008
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 June 2008; (p. 13)
— Review of Bird 2008 single work novel -
A Very Roundabout Path to Enlightenment
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 June 2008; (p. 30-31)
— Review of Bird 2008 single work novel -
Mommie, I Hardly Knew You
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 June 2008; (p. 33)
— Review of Bird 2008 single work novel -
Tales Tap Mother Lode
2008
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review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 21 June 2008; (p. 9)
— Review of Bird 2008 single work novel ; Walking to the Moon 2008 single work novel -
Mysteries in Full Flight to Free Fall
2008
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column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 June 2008; (p. 12) -
A Life Less Imaginary
2008
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— Appears in: The Age , 21 June 2008; (p. 20) -
Aborigines, Sharks and Australian Accents : On Australian Writing
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , July no. 6 2011; (p. 41-51)'Jo Case talks to influential writers, publishers and critics about that often frustrating definition of 'Australia' literature.' (Editor's abstract)